Changes ahead

Well, we're going to Washington DC for the summer! David has accepted an internship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, also known as NIST. David and I are so excited! David will have the opportunity to tour the White House... Unfortunately I won't, but I'm sure he'll tell me all about it. We're really grateful that David's brother John and his wife Janice are willing to let us stay with them while we are there. It'll be fun to meet our new niece Joanna and get to play with Amy and Isaac (their other two children). They live in Gaithersburg, Maryland and it is actually quite convenient because they only live about 3 miles from where David will be working. So, since we only have one car I think we might try to bring some bikes. My dad has some bicycles that he said that we can have, so I think we might go pick them up from Hurricane, get a bike rack and bring them with us! Then David can ride his bike to work or whatever, either way, it'll be fun.

The drive is a little bit intimidating, it's over 2000 miles! We'll be leaving a whole ten days before his internship even starts to make sure that we can take our time and have a few days to recover and enjoy DC before he starts working. The internship begins on May 24th and ends August 9th. I'm going to try to find a job, but I don't know if I'll be able to find one that will allow me to work for only 2 1/2 months, but we'll see. David's sister Hannah (who also lives in DC) suggested that I might be able to find a job as a summer nanny, which would be really fun, so I'll have to look into that. Anyway , we are really excited to have our adventure and I know that it'll be a great experience for David and I, especially David.

I guess right when we get back from our internship my family is planning a vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. So, on our way home we will drive straight there and meet them and have a few days there before we actually go home and move into our new apartment. It's actually pretty convenient that we're going there because David's sister Julia has taken a job there for the summer working in a playhouse doing plays and waitressing. So I'll have to convince my family to go have dinner and a show to see her. It'll be fun.

As of right now, things are pretty busy, we are getting toward the end of the semester and David has had a lot of projects due and tests and papers and everything and I have two tests next week. Pretty crazy stuff, but everything is good.

I think we found an apartment to move into in August, which is good. We will stay in our current ward but we will have an apartment that is almost twice as big as our current one, which will be nice, because our apartment is pretty tiny. And guess what, we won't even have to pay that much more than we do now! And we'll have a dishwasher! Yay, right now we just have a tiny drying rack for our dishes, so doing the dishes is quite the chore nowadays! It'll be nice to move on.

So, I'm going to be starting a phlebotomy class in the beginning of April. Luckily the class lasts 4 weeks, two days a week (conveniently the only days that I would've been able to do), so I'll be finished and certified before we leave for Maryland. I'm really excited about this because then I can get a job doing it in September when we get back. It'll be nice to have a real job and make a little bit more money that I do now. It'll be tough though because for that month David and I won't be able to see one another very much, and that will be hard, but I think it'll work out for the best and then I'll have better opportunities when we get back from the internship. 

I'm excited that I'll be finishing up with school in December. I will be getting my associates degree and just calling that good for a while. David graduates next April, so there's no point in me starting a program here when I know that I won't be able to finish it. So I'll "graduate" with my associates degree in December and then I can go back later whenever it works out best for us. We're excited about all the new things that are happening to us and we are happy with how things are going. We're very blessed.